‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’
2003 September 22
I just finished Rushdie’s ‘The Moor’s Last Sigh.’ The ending was operatic. Over the top, literalist, soap opera-ish. It was nicely surreal, but much weaker than the rest of the book, which was absolutely fabuloso, if you like epics, the argot of Bombay and/or self-referential authorship (the final progeny, the scion from ‘Midnight’s Children’ becomes a character in this one). He’s obsessed with big endings, murder, blowing things up. I did like the Martin Luther touch of nailing his manifesto to doors in the coutryside, though, and I had to refer to the beginning of the book, he foreshadowed the ending there, a nice Ouroboros touch, the snake swallowing its own tail.
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